{"id":797,"date":"2010-04-29T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:29:22","slug":"braves-lack-punch-in-8-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/04\/29\/braves-lack-punch-in-8-game-skid\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves lack punch in 8 game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=8647524&amp;term=%5c%22atlanta+braves\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/3\/e\/3\/d\/MLB_APR_25_ca9e.jpg?adImageId=12688344&amp;imageId=8647524\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MLB: APR 25 Braves at Mets\" width=\"234\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s easy to sum up why the Atlanta Braves are on an 8 game slide. They can&#8217;t score. The Braves have managed a whopping 13 runs in their 8 losses or an average of 1.62 runs per game. Their pitchers have allowed 4.62 runs per game but if you take out an 8 spot that Philadelphia put up on Thursday it comes down to a respectable 4.12.<\/p>\n<p>On the season the Braves have one player hitting above .250 in Martin Prado. (.361) That could be fine if they could get on base but only 4 players in the everyday lineup have an OBP above .310 and with the exception of Jason Heyward there&#8217;s a major power outage in the lineup as well.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to when they were no-hit by Ubaldo Jimenez the Braves have been shutout four times. They have scored more then 3 runs a total of 3 times. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>With Adam Wainwright on the mound for the Cardinals in series finale thing&#8217;s are looking quite bad for the team.<\/p>\n<p>A shakeup is needed but with the players the Braves have and a less then thrilling bench it&#8217;s hard to envision much change anytime soon unless some of these veteran bats start to click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to sum up why the Atlanta Braves are on an 8 game slide. They can&#8217;t score. The Braves have managed a whopping 13 runs in their 8 losses or an average of 1.62 runs per game. Their pitchers have allowed 4.62 runs per game but if you take out an 8 spot that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}